skills

Skills are the new currency on the labour market. Skills indicate demand and supply at a more nuanced level than occupations, whose required expertise and skills are changing increasingly quickly, and degrees, which are often already outdated by the time…

We have a huge responsibility to equip the young people in our care with the values, skills, understanding and wisdom that will enable them to thrive in the world in which they will be living. Read more in gulfnews Getting…

Technology will not replace people in future factories, but it will augment human effort through artificial intelligence and ‘co-bots’ [robots that work alongside people on the shop floor], so finding the right balance will be crucial to our survival. Read…

Skills are actionable. They can guide workers toward understanding their unique value, where they are deficient, and what they want to learn. Especially as more of the workforce shifts toward freelancers, it will be skills—not job titles—that will help workers…

By 2030, robots, artificial intelligence, automatons, call them what you like, will have displaced up to 800 million workers or one fifth of the global workforce. How about in 2032, or 2042, and beyond? What tools should we be arming today’s…

Skills are actionable. They can guide workers toward understanding their unique value, where they are deficient, and what they want to learn. Especially as more of the workforce shifts toward freelancers, it will be skills—not job titles—that will help workers…

China continues to report robust urban job growth that outpaces growth in the country’s labor force—despite a slowdown in economic expansion. By contrast, employment in India grew by only 1.4% per year from 2000 through 2016. Read more in BCG …

As robots and automation take over jobs, there will still be some occupations where humans will be preferred. Theoretical physicist and best-selling author Michio Kaku weighs in on the kind of job skills you need to have to stay employed…

Although the cloud, digitization, and the Internet of Things allow businesses to gather and analyze all sorts of data, few organizations today have a system in place to track the skills they have. And even fewer apply that knowledge to…

College prepares you for your career, but the curriculum may not be enough to prepare you to work in the gig economy. While education is important, you’ll need more than your degree to succeed. Read more in Fast Company These…

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For a thousand years people consulted the Oracle at Delphi in ancient Greece in an attempt to predict the future. The Oracle was a priestess named Pythia in a cave who became disoriented when chewing laurel leaves and babbled incoherently.

However today, we can monitor future by consulting thinkers, scientists, entrepreneurs, business managers, researchers, inventors, leaders and organizations across the globe. All of them are bringing a futurist mindset to tackle our world’s toughest challenges and forging new paths in your field.

On second thoughts, perhaps the Oracle at Delphi was more reliable. That is why you can have all the insight in the world, but if you’re not leveraging it to look at what’s coming in the future, then it’s fundamentally less valuable.